RE: Trademarks

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

What you are looking for is something the US Patent and Trademark Office
calls a Wordmark. Go to this site:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=r5am18.1.1
and enter the term. When I do, I get six hits...your count may vary based on
the search qualifiers.

I don't know how to perform the search so that it is only restricted to the
specific case you've posted.

John Posada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amber Young [mailto:ayoung -at- pridemobility -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:51 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Trademarks
> 
> 
> 
> If a logo/name is registered, I cannot use it as my own.  (If 
> the trademark
> is pending, I can, correct?)  The situation is this: I'm 
> taking manuals from
> a small company in England and making them ours (per our 
> agreement with
> them) and it seems they have invented a product and named it 
> something that
> already exists: RoBoX.  When I pull it up on the web, every 
> possible way to
> spell and capitalize this word is already taken.  In other words, this
> company did not do their research and now I have to.  (Which 
> is becoming
> quite a frequent occurrence with that company...GRRR!)
> 
> So, where can I find out which spellings of this word are registered
> trademarks?  Nobody around here seems to know!
> 

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